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The scientist with a connection to life: 90th anniversary of Meir Wilczek, the Holocaust survivor who conquered the world of biochemistry

Davidson Institute
November 9, 2025
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From a hungry child who wandered through camps, exile, and kolkhozes in Kyrgyzstan – to a leading scientist at the Weizmann Institute, developer of affinity chromatography and the avidin-biotin system, winner of the Israel Prize and the Wolf Prize: Prof. Meir Wilczek celebrates 90 and continues

Prof. Yunina Eldar – Israel Prize winner in the field of engineering

Weizmann Institute
February 6, 2025

"Professor Eldar is an example and role model of a scientist who combines groundbreaking research with the ability to implement and have broad social impact in all sectors of society," the award committee wrote in its reasons.

Professor Zvi Maza is the winner of the Israel Prize in the field of physics research for 2024 - an overview of his main discoveries

Avi Blizovsky
April 12, 2024
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Professor Maza studied planets outside the solar system and even developed a method for discovering planets that allows expanding the search circle

The Technion mourns the death of Prof. Emeritus Yehoshua Zak, one of the founders of the Faculty of Physics and laureate of the Israel Prize for Physics and Chemistry Research

Avi Blizovsky
March 15, 2024
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Prof. Zak, a survivor of the Vilna ghetto led scientific breakthroughs and two phenomena in physics are named after him. He was a student of Prof. Natan Rosen, Albert Einstein's research partner. Prof. Zak spent the

The President of the Academy, Prof. David Harel, proposes to transfer the administration of the Israel Awards jointly to the President's House and the National Academy of Sciences

Avi Blizovsky
March 6, 2024
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Prof. Harel said these things at the meeting of the Knesset's Science Committee on Sunday this week, following the decision to cancel most of the categories of the Israel Awards and award an award to those who showed bravery during the invasion of Otef

Eil Waldman in the Science Committee of the Knesset I would like to investigate in depth whether there was improper interference that led to the cancellation of the Israel Awards

Avi Blizovsky
March 5, 2024
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"The truth is that my candidacy was not liked by the Honorable Minister and those close to the Prime Minister and perhaps even the Prime Minister himself because I am known to be an opponent of him and the political revolution he tried to bring about," said Waldman

Israel Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof. Amnon Shashua, founder of Mobileye

Avi Blizovsky
March 22, 2023
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In the reasons for the award committee it was stated that Shashua is the ambassador of Israeli excellence, daring and creativity in the world

Prof. Michal Schwartz from the Weizmann Institute won the Israel Prize for research on the relationship between the immune system and the nervous system

Avi Blizovsky
March 14, 2023
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Prof. Schwartz challenged the convention that nerve cells do not regenerate or recover, and discovered that the immune system also takes care of them. She also studied the blood-brain barrier and discovered that it is prevented

Prof. Yehoshua Zak - winner of the Israel Prize in Physics and Chemistry

The Technion
March 2, 2022

The award was given to Prof. Zak for "developing mathematical tools such as 'Zak transformation' and 'Zak phenomenon' used to decipher the phenomena of electrical conduction in a magnetic field. These tools enable the prediction of materials with unique properties for building

Prof. Eli Keshet, Hebrew, winner of the Israel Prize in the field of life sciences research

The Hebrew University
February 27, 2021

In its reasoning, the committee stated that: "The Israel Prize in the field of life sciences research for the year 2018 is awarded to Prof. Eli Keshet, from the Hebrew University, for his pioneering contributions in understanding the mechanism by which oxygen-deficient conditions stimulate the growth of